Natural Light Photography Tutorial: Using Window Light Portrait for Stills and Video




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How to Use Natural Lighting in Your Photography – A Simple Window Light Photo Tutorial
By Jay P. Morgan

In this video we will look at how to use window light as an effective light source to create portraits.

Window light is a natural light source that can create beautiful light for portraits in video and stills. It’s a quick light source that is controlled by the size of the window and the proximity of the subject to the window or light source. Large windows give softer light with brighter backgrounds and smaller windows give harder light with darker backgrounds. Its the same principle as soft boxes. Large boxes create soft light and small boxes create more directional light. We will look at window light as a back light, key light, or flat frontal light. In the process we will explore how skin tone and hair color effect the way we light. Combining someone with dark hair and olive skin and someone with fair skin and red hair creates a challenge. We will discuss how to overcome that challenge. Lets look at Window light as a light source for portraits.

Keep those cameras rolling and keep on click-in!

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21 responses to “Natural Light Photography Tutorial: Using Window Light Portrait for Stills and Video”

  1. hey jay nice work. i would like your thoughts on the 7d. i would like to do professional photography i love the 7d i would like to have it for video and photography but people say
    get the 5d 2 but i see from this video it looks like a good camera for photography. also will an old 5d classic be good for portraits . thank you for your time in advance for responding

  2. Totally agree. It's like the ones who are slaves to the histogram or "proper" techniques. The point of this medium is to capture feeling, emotion, beauty, and story. Make the image look and feel right, don't worry about what the "proper" iris, shutter, etc is! There are many who are technical, but not very creative.

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